Last night I downloaded the Sleep Cycle iPhone app – it’s supposed to monitor your movement and sounds while you’re sleeping to determine where you are in your sleep cycle and wake you up during your lightest sleep. I didn’t Continue reading →

Since Sudoku had been such a major part of the end of last week, we started the day with a discussion around approaches to difficult programming problems. The advice was pretty generic (e.g. test frequently, keep small methods), but we Continue reading →

I decided to have a day away from the DBC office today, but I still managed to get a fair amount done. I’ve been receiving emails from Heroku about too many rows in my LazyCexio rails database, so I started Continue reading →

Today is a Saturday, which means nothing when it comes to DBC. Ok, that’s not strictly true – I could have very easily studied from home today, and I did get a much needed lie-in, but weekend studying is definitely Continue reading →

It was my first experience of group check-ins today – I vaguely remember reading on someone else’s blog about them, but wasn’t really sure what to expect. In groups of 10 or so, we have two minutes each to talk Continue reading →

Our first lecture of the day was on debugging in ruby and some general thoughts around the process: from looking at the existing tests and adding additional ones, to puts’ing variables and using the ‘debugger’ gem. The first challenge was Continue reading →

The day started as always with a check-in with my accountability group followed by ‘aha’ moments with the cohort. The morning lecture was on data structures and the concept of ‘truthiness’ (i.e. in ruby, only ‘false’ and ‘nil’ are truly Continue reading →

The word of the day is relief. Yesterday was crazy, intense, fun, stressful, overwhelming and a hundred other words – today was all of those things, but at a more manageable pace. It probably helped that we had both yoga Continue reading →

The one word that comes to mind to describe today is ‘intense’: from arriving at 0830 to leaving at 2130, everything was ramped up to 11. However, the enthusiasm was infectious so even after very little sleep last night I Continue reading →

Presently I’m about a third of the way through Phase 0 at Dev Bootcamp (started on 2nd June and beginning Phase 0 on 4th August), so I’ll be trying to post the next few posts in fairly quick succession in Continue reading →